Full-length portrait of left profile of mustachioed conductor Theodore Thomas with baton and music stand. He stands on an ornate rug, wearing a long double-breasted jacket. Thomas, was born in Esens, East Friesland, Germany, on October 11, 1835,...

Jazz trumpet player and orchestra leader Clyde McCoy (at chalkboard) instructs ten young men, presumably members of his big band, some of whom hold instruments and one of whom holds a pipe in his month. The chalkboard is labeled "Conn Studio."...

Jazz trumpet player and orchestra leader Clyde McCoy poses on the steps of the Pendennis Club, wearing a Santa suit and shaking hands with a man in an overcoat. The rest of his band, also wearing Santa suits, stand behind him, holding their...

Frank Sinatra onstage accompanied by Tommy Dorsey's Orchestra at the Jefferson County Armory. Dorsey has his back to the audience and stands in front of the other musicians while Sinatra faces the audience while gripping the stand of a microphone....

Five-member orchestra with four men and one women, all dressed formally. One man sits at piano while the others have a bass, guitar, and oboe. The woman wears an accordion on a strap. A banner in front reads "Don Torres."

Address: 118 West Broadway. Fifteen young men who comprise the school orchestra pose on stage at St. Xavier College, a Catholic high school for boys. There are woodwinds, a drum, a banjo and a piano arranged in front of them. A banner with ST. X on...

A group of three white women and four white men pose behind a microphone that has the WHAS call letters on it. Another white man sits at a piano next to them. The invoice for this photograph indicates they are singers in the Falls City Orchestra.

Louisville Recreational Building, a large three-story brick and stone building on the southeast corner of Third and Guthrie Streets in Louisville, Kentucky. A large sign with the words "Madrid Dancing" faces west on top of the building. The first...

Six African American musicians perform in an open pavilion. The drum reads "Jones Orchestra." Other instruments include trombone, violin, banjo, piano, trumpet, and saxophone. Outside of the pavilion tables are set up.

Clyde McCoy, jazz trumpet player and orchestra leader of Ashland, Kentucky, wearing a suit and tie. The photograph has been cut out so that only he is visible, painted on, and yellowing from age. Stamped on back of image: April 23, 1932....

Portrait of Clyde McCoy, jazz trumpet player and orchestra leader of Ashland, Kentucky, wearing a suit and tie. Crop marks outline his image and the photograph is marred with discolorations. Handwritten on back of image: director of Clyde McCoy...

Orchestra, lodges and balcony at Loews Theater on Fourth Street between Broadway and Chestnut, Louisville, Kentucky. Side view of seats, right theater wall and much of the balcony seating area as well as the edge of the orchestra in which are...

The audience the matinee performance of Alice Hegan Rice's "Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch," on October 10, 1903, as photographed from the stage. The apron of the stage, part of the orchestra pit (a man playing the double bass), and orchestra and...

Full-length portrait of conductor Don Philippini, leader of an eponymous symphony orchestra that toured the American South. Although this portrait is inscribed January 11, 1908, there is no indication that his orchestra performed at Macauley's...